Hello, I am selling some things on Kleinanzeigen for the first time and not very familiar with the process. One person messaged about a couch that I’m selling about 5 minutes after the ad went up. I’ve received an email saying that the buyer has requested to reserve the couch and asking me to confirm this by clicking a link, is this normal? (Attached photo) They also asked for my email, but is it not linked automatically? The buyer set up their account today, but I also set up my account today so I don’t know if that’s actually suspicious or not.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you!
by Flaky-Dragon
3 comments
This is a scam. Buyers cannot request reservation, that’s something you have to do as a seller.
Don’t communicate outside of Kleinanzeigen.
Just remember. When you are on Kleinanzeigen. Anything beyond someone within the Kleinanzeigen internal messages asking to meet up and pay in cash for what you are selling is in 99% of cases a scam.
Scam. Well made but Scam. Confirming something by clicking some link in an email should always ring an alarm bell.
Also, the German used here is weird. No one would write that way.